Mobile, pervasive computing environments respond to users' requirements by providing
access to and composition of various services over networked devices. In such an …

Driven by the vast proliferation of mobile devices and ubiquitous computing, dynamic
software adaptation is becoming one of the most common terms in Software Engineering …

Combining existing services to create new pervasive computing services involves special
design considerations, including context awareness, contingency management, device …

The frame approach for representing knowledge (ie, collection of frames are linked together
into frame-system) has been suggested by Marvin Minsky. In this approach, the frame …

A distributed system's allocation of software components to hardware nodes (ie, deployment
architecture) can have a significant impact on its quality of service (QoS). For a given system …

Implementing energy-efficient CPUs and peripherals as well as reducing resource
consumption have become emerging trends in computing. A landmark for researchers in …

The current smart home is a ubiquitous computing environment consisting of multiple
autonomous spaces, and its advantage is that a service interacting with home users can be …

The Internet of Things (IoT) has a great potential to change our lives. Billions of
heterogeneous, distributed, intelligent, and sometimes mobile devices, will be connected …

Crowdsourcing has emerged as an important paradigm in human-problem solving
techniques on the Web. One application of crowdsourcing is to outsource certain tasks to the …

Face detection has advanced dramatically over the past three decades. Algorithms can now
quite reliably detect faces in clutter in or near real time. However, much still needs to be …